Kolumba Museum / Peter Zumthor - ArchDaily
WEBAug 6, 2010 · The facade of grey brick integrates the remnants of the church’s facade into a new face for the contemporary museum. Articulated with perforations, the brick work allows diffused light to fill...
Peter Zumthor's Kolumba Museum Uses Local Materials to ... - ArchDaily
WEBAug 14, 2018 · The facade of grey brick integrates the remnants of the church’s facade into a new face for the contemporary museum. Articulated with perforations, the brick work allows diffused light to fill...
Kolumba™ - Petersen Tegl
WEBKolumba™ was developed in 2000 in cooperation between Swiss architect Peter Zumthor and Petersen Tegl for the Kolumba Museum in Cologne, Germany. Today, Kolumba™ bricks are used in buildings all over the world.
Petersen's Kolumba Brick - World-Architects
WEBJun 10, 2013 · In Peter Zumthor's design, materiality is of the utmost importance, so the Swiss architect worked with Danish company Petersen Tegl to develop handmade bricks that are thinner and longer than standard bricks. Now architects can benefit from their efforts with Petersen's Kolumba™ line of bricks.
Kolumba Museum by Peter Zumthor: A Modest Design
WEBThese bricks were manufactured in the brick kiln owned by Petersen Tegl in Denmark, where they are made by the old method of hand-pressing wet clay in a wooden mould which is later baked in a coal-fired kiln. These bricks gave a …
Channeling Zumthor: 5 Sumptuous Projects Built with Kolumba Bricks
WEBThese rutted and charred bricks eventually caught the eye of Peter Zumthor, a Pritzker-prize winning architect from Switzerland, who had just been commissioned to design the Kolumba Museum for the Archdiocese of Cologne’s Roman Catholic art collection.
Kolumba - Wikipedia
WEBThe new structure Peter Zumthor built for the museum now shares its site with the ruins of the Gothic church and the 1950s chapel, wrapping a perforated grey brick facade like a cloak around both, the museum and old church. [4]
Kolumba Art Museum & St. Kolumba's Church
WEBPeter Zumthor's grey brick building has engulfed the ruins of the former St. Kolumba church, destroyed along with much of the area around it during the bombing of World War II.
Kolumba Museum | Peter Zumthor & Partner - Archello
WEBKolumba will be a shadow museum which will evolve only in the course of the day and the seasons. Some of the wall-sized windows allow daylight to penetrate from all directions. The steel frames decorate the brick coat like brooches and segment the monumental facade.
Peter Zumthor, Rasmus Hjortshøj - COAST · Kolumba Museum
WEBJul 25, 2017 · The warm grey brick of the massive building unite with the tuffs, basalt and bricks of the ruins. Rasmus Hjortshøj - COAST. Add to collection. The new building develops seamlessly from the old remains whilst respecting it in every detail.